Dean Starkman

Dean Starkman is a senior editor for ICIJ, acting in part-time capacity.

Separately, he is a Non-Resident Distinguished Fellow at the American University in Bulgaria’s Center for Information, Citizenship and Democracy, where he serves as Editorial Director of the Bulgaria International Journalism Fellowship, a reporting project designed to bring more international attention to that country’s democratic journey.

Starkman’s career has encompassed investigative journalism, media analysis, book publishing, and teaching, with a focuses on finance, media and their intersection. As a newspaper reporter, he helped lead the Providence Journal to the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Investigations, and covered white-collar crime, corporate governance and general business news for The Wall Street Journal and other major American newspapers; as a magazine writer, he wrote about the financial crisis, business media, and economic inequality for The New Republic, The Nation, Mother Jones and other publications. As a media critic, he ran the Columbia Journalism Review’s business section, “The Audit,” a daily critique of the U.S. business press. He wrote, The Watchdog that Didn’t Bark: the Financial Crisis and the Disappearance of Investigative Journalism (Columbia University Press 2014). He has taught media courses for Central European University’s Department of Public Policy and has been a frequent public speaker on journalism and related topics.